Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War. During the German occupation in World War II he worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets. His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch's father's collaboration with the Nazis. Due to the curious nature of his parents'
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Between 1959 and 2012 Bernlef wrote a large number of novels, stories and poems. Amongst others he received the Constantijn Huygens prijs (1984), the AKO Literatuurprijs (1987) and the PC Hooftprijs (1994). His work is characterized by a sober language and an unflagging fascination with the workings of the human memory. His most famous novel is Hersenschimmen (1984) and describes the process of dementia from the point of view of the sufferer, Maarten Klein. (Source: de Volkskrant 29/10/2012) -
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Peter Buwalda is a Dutch writer. He was a journalist and an editor at several publishers. He was co-founder of literary music magazine Wah-Wah and wrote stories and essays for De Gids, Vrij Nederland, Bunker Hill and Hollands Maandblad. In September 2010 he made his debut with the novel Bonita Avenue. It received a magnificent reception and became a bestseller. It was awarded the Academica Debutantenprijs, the Selexyz Debuutprijs and the Tzumprijs and was nominated for nine awards including the AKO Literatuurprijs, the Libris Literatuur Prijs, the KANTL Proza Prijs, the NS Publieksprijs and De Gouden Strop 2011.
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Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten (1990), published in the USA as The Laws (1993), translated by Richard Huijing. The Laws was shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Hugo Claus
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Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors. Before devoting his entire life to writing, Hermans had been teaching Physical Geography at the University of Groningen for many years. He had already started writing and publishing in magazines at a young age. His polemic and provocative style led to a court case as early as 1952. His caustic pieces were compiled in Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur (Mandarines in Sulphuric Acid, 1963), which was reprinted with additions a number of times. It is Hermans’s belief that in order to survive people have to create their own reality. It is inevitable that all these experiences of reality will collide. Language is essential to create order out of chaos and plays an important role in th
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Rudi van Dantzig
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In 1986 he wrote an autobiographical novel, Voor een verloren soldaat, about his love affair while a young boy with a Canadian soldier, which became a great success. It was awarded several times and a film was made of it. An English translation, For a Lost Soldier, was published in 1996. Van Dantzig published a biography of the Dutch artist and resistance fighter Willem Arondeus in 2003.
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Mary Novik
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My new novel Muse is set in 14th-century Avignon. Everyone on Goodreads has been so wonderfully supportive, I feel very blessed. I am especially happy to see that the group, The Imprinted Life, discussed Muse here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
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Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was een Vlaams schrijver. Hij was een veelzijdig kunstenaar: romancier, dichter, toneelschrijver, schilder en filmregisseur.
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From 1967 to 1973 he was a primary school teacher.[
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F. Bordewijk
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His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Paddestoelen ("Mushrooms") under the pen-name Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.
His breakthrough came with the short novels Blokken ("Blocks", 1931), Knorrende Beesten ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), and two longer works Rood paleis ("Red Palace", 1936) and Karakter ("Character", 1938).
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Son of small property owners in Cairo, at the age of 17, inspired by reading Honoré de Balzac, Albert Cossery ( Arabic: البرت قصيري) emigrated to Paris. He came there to continue his studies which he never did devote himself to, writing and settled permanently in the French capital in 1945, where he lived until his death in 2008.
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He published several articles on cardiology, but since he started his research on near-death experiences (NDE) in survivors of cardiac arrest in 1986, he is the author of more than 20 articles (most of them in Dutch), one book, and several chapters about NDE. He is married, has two children and five grandchildren.
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Geert Mak
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Bervoets received numerous nominations and awards for her work. In 2017, she was granted the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of works. Her novels are being translated in many languages and were adapted for film and television. Excerpts and short stories were published on international platforms such as Five Dials and The Guardian.
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P.C. Hooft
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Cees Nooteboom
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His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004). (Het volgende verhaal won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993 -
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Neva Squires-Rodriguez earned her Bachelor’s Degree from American Military University (APUS/AMU) and her Master’s Degree from National University, a feat which she worked very hard to obtain and says she will work even harder to pay off.
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Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three"). He became noted in the 1960s mainly for his strikingly direct descriptions of sex.
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Hubert Lampo
Hubert Léon Lampo was een Vlaamse schrijver.
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Gerard Reve
Gerard Reve was een Nederlands schrijver en dichter. Samen met Harry Mulisch en W.F. Hermans wordt hij gerekend tot De Grote Drie: de drie belangrijkste Nederlandse schrijvers van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tot zijn bekendste werken behoren De avonden (roman uit 1947) en Werther Nieland (novelle uit 1949). Tot 1973 schreef Reve onder zijn oorspronkelijke naam Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, maar vereenvoudigde deze later tot Gerard Reve. Hij debuteerde in 1946 in het tijdschrift Criterium met de novelle De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, een jaar later verscheen de klassieker De avonden. Reve zou uiteindelijk een enorm oeuvre voortbrengen, waaronder een groot aantal ‘brievenboeken’. In 1969 ontving Reve de P.C. Hooftprijs en in 2001 werd
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Marga Minco
Marga Minco (pseudoniem van Sara Minco) debuteerde in 1957 met Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverbergprijs (nu F. Bordewijkprijs). Ook haar latere werk, De andere kant (1959), Een leeg huis (1966), De val (1983), De glazen brug (1986), Nagelaten dagen (1997) en de bundel verzamelde verhalen Achter de muur (2010), had veelal de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de nasleep daarvan als onderwerp. Voor haar oeuvre ontving Minco de Annie Romeinprijs (1999), de Constantijn Huygensprijs (2005) en de P. C. Hooftprijs (2019). Haar boeken zijn in vele talen vertaald.
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Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.
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Determined to expose the scandals he had witnessed during his years in the Dutch East Indies, Douwes Dekker began to write newspaper articles and pamphlets. Little notice was taken of these early publications until, in 1860, he published his satirical anticolonialist novel Max Havelaar: The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived -
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Herman Koch
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
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Louis Paul Boon
Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was een Vlaams schrijver, dichter en kunstschilder.
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Lodewijk Paul Albrecht (Louis Paul) Boon was a Flemish writer, poet and painter.
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Peter Verhelst
Peter Verhelst is een Vlaamse dichter en schrijver.
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Peter Verhelst is a Flemish poet and writer.
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Nescio
Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh was born in Amsterdam, the oldest of four children. After an idealistic youth, he joined the Holland–Bombay Trading Company in 1904, becoming director in 1926, suffering a nervous breakdown leading to a short hospitalization in 1927, and retiring at age fifty-five, on December 31, 1937; he married Aagje Tiket (b. 1883) in 1906 and had four daughters with her, born in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1912. Meanwhile, as Nescio (Latin for “I don’t know”; he adopted a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize his business career, acknowledging his authorship publicly only in 1929), he wrote what is now considered perhaps the best prose in the Dutch language.
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Martin Walser
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A.F.Th. van der Heijden
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Adrianus Franciscus Theodorus (Adri) van der Heijden is a Dutch writer. He also published as Patrizio Canaponi and as A.F.Th. In 2003 he received the Schrijversprijs der Brabantse Letteren and in 2011 the Constantijn Huygensprijs, both prizes for his entire work. -
Judith M. Bennett
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Felix Timmermans
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Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans was a Flemish writer and poet. He was the father of Lia Timmermans
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G.A. Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (1585–1618) was a 17th century Dutch poet, playwright and rhetorician, best known for his comedic plays and folk poetry. His 1617 play Spaanschen Brabander Jerolimo (The Spanish Brabanter) is considered the greatest Dutch comedy to emerge from the Dutch Golden Age, if not from Dutch literature in general.
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Soon after his death, his poems were collected in wildly popular songbooks such as the Geestigh liedt-boecxken (Merry Song Book, 1621), the Groot lied-boeck (Great Song Book, 1622) and the complete works (1638) by the Amsterdam book seller and publisher Cornelis Lodewijcksz. Vander Plasse. -
Hildebrand
Pseudonym of Nicolaas Beets
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Hildebrand is het pseudoniem waaronder schrijver, dichter en predikant Nicolaas Beets o.m. zijn bekendste werk de ‘Camera Obscura’ schreef, waarvan de eerste versie verscheen in 1839. Hij studeerde theologie in Leiden en promoveerde er in 1839. Van 1840 tot 1853 was hij predikant te Heemstede. In 1854 werd hij predikant in Utrecht, waar hij van 1874 tot 1884 hoogleraar in de theologie was. -
Tessa de Loo
Tessa de Loo is de pen name of Johanna Martina (Tineke) Duyvené de Wit.
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Mano Bouzamour
Es un joven de ascendencia marroquí nacido en Holanda, en 1991, que ha resultado ser una de las grandes promesas de la literatura en su país. Bouzamour ha vivido su vida entre dos culturas muy diferentes, ha estado atrapado entre dos comunidades que viven juntas, pero que nunca se han mirado a los ojos. En su libro «La promesa de Pisa», señala los problemas que tiene que enfrentar un inmigrante que no termina de ser totalmente aceptado en ninguna de las dos esferas.
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Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
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He studied physics at the Arak College of Science and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft (The Netherlands), writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque), catapulted Abdolah into the Dutch bestseller lists. -
Hella S. Haasse
Hella S. Haasse (1918 - 2011) was born in Batavia, modern-day Jakarta. She moved to the Netherlands after secondary school. In 1945 she debuted with a collection of poems, entitled Stroomversnelling (Momentum). She made her name three years later with the novella given out to mark the Dutch Book Week, Oeroeg (The Black Lake, 1948). As with much of her work, this tale of the friendship between a Dutch and an Indonesian boy has gained the status of a classic in the Netherlands. Titles such as Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering, 1949), Een nieuwer testament (Threshold of Fire, 1966) and Mevrouw Bentinck of Onverenigbaarheid van karakter (Mrs Bentinck or Irreconcilable in Character, 1978) have been greatly enjoyed by several gen
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Rosita Steenbeek
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Rosita Steenbeek doorliep het Johan van Oldenbarneveltgymnasium te Amersfoort. Vervolgens studeerde ze enige tijd Klassieke talen in Utrecht en deed haar propedeuse theologie. Aanvankelijk wilde ze een familietraditie voortzetten en dominee worden. Ze zwaaide om naar Neerlandistiek en studeerde af in de Moderne Letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Tijdens haar studie acteerde ze regelmatig op het toneel en in de film.
Na haar doctoraal vertrok ze naar Rome om haar geluk in de film te beproeven. En ook om in te halen dat ze niet mee mocht op Romereis vanwege een hersenbloeding.
Ze speelde in film- en televisieproducties, schreef artikelen voor o.a. Vrij Nederland en vertaalde boeken uit het Italiaans van Alberto Moravia en Susanna Ta -
Maarten 't Hart
Maarten ’t Hart made his debut under the name Martin Hart with the novel Stenen voor een ransuil (Stones for a Long-Eared Owl, 1971). He studied biology in Leiden and worked as an ethologist at Leiden University. One of the most important themes in his oeuvre is his childhood in a Calvinist community and his distancing himself from it. His passions for nature and music also constantly crop up in his work. ’t Hart broke through to a wide audience with his melancholy novel about meeting his teenage love: Een vlucht regenwulpen (A Flight of Curlews, 1978). Many novels, short-story and essay collections later, ’t Hart, with his authentic tone and work which often touches upon the tension between biography and fiction, has grown to be one of the
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Thomas Rosenboom
Thomas Rosenboom is a Dutch writer of novels and short stories,. He studied Psychology for 3 years, did not finish but switched to studying Dutch in Amsterdam. His first book was published in 1983 and contains 3 short stories. He's the only writer to have won the Libris Literatuur Prijs twice (for Gewassen Vlees in 1995 and for Publieke Werken in 2000).
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Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig (born 3 October 1959) is an Austrian writer, whose stories have been described as having "the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams". He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008, and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.
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Kristof Calvo
Kristof Calvo y Castañer (Rumst, 30 januari 1987) is een Belgisch politicus voor Groen. Hij vertegenwoordigt sinds 13 juni 2010 de kieskring Antwerpen in de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers. Hij is sinds 1 januari 2013 gemeenteraadslid in Mechelen.
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Maarten Boudry
Maarten Boudry (1984) is schrijver, wetenschapsfilosoof en was van 2019 tot 2023 houder van de leerstoel Etienne Vermeersch aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij schreef onder meer de bestseller Waarom de wereld niet naar de knoppen gaat (2019), waarover Marcel Hulspas schreef: ‘Strijdlustig. 340 pagina’s lang belijdt Boudry zijn onverwoestbare geloof in de vooruitgang’ (de Volkskrant, ****). Andere boeken zijn Illusies voor gevorderden (2015) en Waarom ons klimaat niet naar de knoppen gaat (als we het hoofd koel houden) (2021).
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Karel Davids
See also works published as C.A. Davids.
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Karel Davids is Full Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. -
Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, KBE (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.
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Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to an English father and South African mother. He was educated at Westminster School and Merton College, Oxford, and in 1937 became a librarian in the British Museum's Department of Printed Books, working on the new General Catalogue. During World War II, he worked in the Naval section Hut 8 at the code-breaking establishment, Bletchley Park, translating Italian Naval codes.
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Betje Wolff
Elizabeth Bekker Wolff, beter bekend als Betje Wolff. Er is een 'Museum Betje Wolff' in Middenbeemster, gevestigd in de pastorie waar Betje na haar huwelijk met dominee Adrianus Wolff heeft gewoond en waar zij een aantal van haar boeken heeft geschreven (adres: Middenweg 178, Middenbeemster). Het huis in De Rijp (Rechtestraat 40), waar Betje Wolff samen met Aagje Deken heeft gewoond na de dood van dominee Wolff, is niet opengesteld voor publiek. Het huis heeft een gedenksteen in de gevel. Elizabeth Bekker Wolff was also known as Betje Wolff.
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There is an interesting museum in Middenbeemster (province of Noord-Holland, address Middenweg 178).The museum is located in the old vicarage where Betje lived after her marriage to Adrianus Wolff. The -
Erik Vlaminck
Erik Vlaminck is een Vlaamse roman- en theaterauteur. Hij is geboren op 2 juli 1954 in Kapellen (België).
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Hij leidde de Antwerpse SchrijversAcademie en de Vlaamse Auteursvereniging en hij is voorzitter van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde.
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Roelof ten Napel
Roelof ten Napel (Joure, 1993) is dichter, schrijver en essayist. Hij werd genomineerd voor verscheidene prijzen en was laureaat van het C.C.S. Crone-Stipendium. NRC Handelsblad noemde hem "Een van de grootste jonge schrijvers van het moment."
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Johan Daisne
Johan Daisne is het pseudoniem van Herman Thiery, een Vlaamse schrijver.
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Johan Daisne is the pseudonym of Herman Thiery, a Flemish writer.
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Boudewijn Büch
Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch was een Nederlandse dichter, schrijver en televisiepresentator.
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish colonial administrator Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca explored parts of present-day Florida, Texas, and Mexico and aroused interest in the region with his vivid stories of opportunities.
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In the New World, he and three other persons survived the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez of 1527. During eight years of traveling across the southwest, he traded and encountered and in faith healed various Native American tribes before he reconnected with forces in 1536. After returning in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación ("The Relation", or in more modern terms "The Account"), retitled Naufragios ("Shipwrecks") in later editions. People ably consider and note Cabeza de Vaca as a proto-anthropologist for his detail -
Arjen Lubach
Arjen Lubach (1979) debuteerde in 2006 met de roman Mensen die ik ken die mijn moeder hebben gekend, in 2008 gevolgd door het eveneens geprezen Bastaardsuiker. Zijn derde roman, Magnus, werd bekroond met de publieksprijs van de Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuurprijs.
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In 2013 verscheen IV, dat genomineerd werd voor De Gouden Strop 2013 en de Crimezone Debuutprijs won. In 2014 verscheen de midprice-editie, waar Lubach een nieuw einde voor schreef. Hij zei hierover: 'Ik heb geen spijt van het oude einde. Maar het nieuwe einde heeft meer te maken met de huidige situatie in de wereld en de wereld van het boek.'
Sinds 2014 presenteert hij de razend populaire en alom geprezen satirische show Zondag met Lubach. -
Carry van Bruggen
Carry van Bruggen is the penname of Carolina Lea de Haan. She also wrote under the penname Justine Abbing.
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Remco Campert
Remco Campert (28 July 1929 – 4 July 2022) was a Dutch author, poet and columnist.
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Marnix Gijsen
Marnix Gijsen was de schrijversnaam van Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, een Vlaams schrijver. Zijn pseudoniem komt van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde en de naam van zijn moeder, Gijsen.
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In 1926 ontving hij de August Beernaertprijs voor Het huis.
Marnix Gijsen was the pen name of Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris, a Flemish writer. His pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen).
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Anna Bijns
De vader van Anna Bijns (1493-1575), Jan Bijns, was kousen- (of eigenlijk broeken-)maker en wellicht ook rederijker. Anna bracht haar jeugd door in het huis ‘De Cleyn Wolvinne’ aan de Grote Markt (nu nummer 46). Ze had een zuster, Margriete (geboren in 1495) en een broer, Marten (geboren in 1497). Na het overlijden van vader Bijns in 1516 verkocht Anna’s moeder, Lijsbeth Voochs, het huis aan de Grote Markt om Marten en Margriete hun erfdeel te kunnen uitbetalen. Marten en Anna betrokken samen met hun moeder vervolgens het huis ‘De Patiencie’ in de Keizerstraat. Marten opende er een schooltje waar ook Anna les gaf.
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Anna begon wellicht te schrijven aan het einde van de jaren 1510 of het begin van de jaren 1520. Ze onderhield hechte contacten -
Simon Carmiggelt
Simon Carmiggelt (1913-1987) groeide op in zijn geboortestad Den Haag. Hij begon als journalist, aanvankelijk bij Het Vaderland, in 1932 bij Vooruit, de Haagse editie van het socialistische dagblad Het Volk, als toneel- en filmrecensent. Daar begon hij Haagse ‘cursiefjes’ te schrijven, onder de titel ‘Kleinigheden’.
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Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog raakte Carmiggelt via vrienden in Amsterdam betrokken bij het illegale blad Het Parool, waar hij instond voor de productie en de verspreiding. In het laatste oorlogsjaar was hij ook redacteur.
Na de bevrijding kreeg Carmiggelt bij Het Parool de leiding over de kunstrubriek. Vanaf oktober 1946 publiceerde hij weer zijn korte verhalen, aanvankelijk drie keer per week, later elke dag, die hij onderteken -
Cola Debrot
Nicolaas (Cola) Debrot was een Antilliaans schrijver, dichter, arts, diplomaat, jurist, minister, filosoof en balletcriticus. Hij wordt als de grondlegger van de Antilliaans-Nederlandse literatuur beschouwd. Debrot debuteerde in 1935 met de novelle Mijn zuster de negerin.
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C. Warren Hollister
A specialist in medieval English history, Charles Warren Hollister graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1958. He was one of the founding members of the University of California Santa Barbara history department, where he taught until his retirement in 1994.
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Hendrik Conscience
Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was een Vlaamse schrijver. Hij staat in Vlaanderen bekend als "De man die zijn volk leerde lezen".
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Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Flemish writer. In Flanders he is remembered as 'The man who taught his people to read'.
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Simon Vestdijk
Born in the small town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned to literature after a few years as a doctor. He became one of the most important 20th-century writers in the Netherlands. His prolificity as a novelist was legendary, but he was at least as important as an essayist on e.g., literature, art, music and religion. He also wrote poetry and short stories. His work has been translated into most Western European languages.
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Hermine Heijermans
Hermine Marie Leendert Heijermans (1902-1983) was a Dutch stage actress, author and politician. She was the daughter of playwright Herman Heijermans and, under the name Minny Heijermans, performed in her father's company, the Tooneelvereeniging, from 1921 to 1938. After the Second World War she remained active as a comedian. Heijermans is best remembered as an author: she wrote several novels and a biography about her father. In 1976 she edited the ‘Boekenweekgeschenk’ titled “Snikken en smartlapjes”. In the 1960s and ’70s she was a columnist for Sekstant, the magazine of the NVSH. Heijermans was also member of the Amsterdam city council on behalf of the CPN.
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Frank Martinus Arion
Frank Martinus Arion is the pen name of Frank Efraim Martinus.
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Béatrix Beck
Béatrix Beck was a French writer from Belgian origin.
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She is the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of André Gide, he encouraged her to write about her experiences: her mother's suicide, the war, her poverty, etc. -
Tamar Herzog
Tamar Herzog is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor in the History Department at Harvard University, and Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School.
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Frans Pointl
Frans Pointl werd op 1 augustus 1933 in Amsterdam geboren als zoon van een Joodse moeder, Rebecca van Dam, en een Oostenrijkse vader, de kunstschilder, cineast, fotograaf en muzikant Christian Pointl. Frans groeide op in Heemstede. Zijn ouders scheidden toen hij vijf jaar was.
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In 1942 ging Rebecca van Dam bij familie in Amsterdam wonen, aan de Waalstraat. Frans werd bij een pleeggezin in Krommenie ondergebracht. Later verhuisde hij naar een kindertehuis. Meteen na de oorlog werd Frans herenigd met zijn moeder, die bijna haar gehele familie verloren had. Samen betrokken zij een eenvoudige huurkamer aan de Stalinlaan, de latere Vrijheidslaan. Frans begon aan een MULO-opleiding en bleef na het behaalde examen bij zijn moeder wonen. Rebecca over -
Ward Ruyslinck
Ward Ruyslinck, pseudoniem van Raymond Charles Marie De Belser, is een Vlaamse schrijver.
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Ward Ruyslinck bij "Schrijversgewijs"
Ward Ruyslinck, pseudonym of Raymond Charles Marie De Belser, is a Flemish writer.
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